5 comments about Never Say Never Again [Blu-ray].

1. I should have known it, but bought it in a hurry for a gift.
   It should be made clear.



2. Great movie. I didn't know the history and that this was an "unofficial" Bond movie. The extras did a good job of explaining it and the movie is great.



3. Connery at his charming best! Not to mention it has the best Bond women and best villains and the best Bond woman villain! Far better than Thunderball. Some people call this an unofficial Bond but this is untrue, they had the rights to make this Bond story, its just not made by the people who made most of them.



4. This is yet another one of Sean Connery's greatest movie's thank you very much for getting this to me on time!!



5. Very satisfied and pleased. I recommend doing business with this seller. Very fast shipping and excellent communication. Thank you very much. A+++++++ Rating.

5 comments about The Big Blue (Director's Cut).

1. I watched this movie back in the 80s, when I used to work in a video store, because I love dolphins and saw one on the cover. It's definately different, but in a good way. It is slow in a few spots, but overall a good movie. I normally can't stand Rosanna Arquette, but can watch this movie over and over again because of the story and great scenery/photography. Also, Jean Reno is always good as a villain and it's great to see him before he became known in the States.



2. This movie is baaaaaad but loooooooooooooong...
   
   Talk about a Giant Sucking Sound!
   
   Sure, it's got beautiful scenery and lush cinematography, plus two very likable stars (three, if you count Griffin Dunne doing a bit role). But that doesn't ammount to much when the movie lacks a credible screenplay, and what poses as such is full of unnerving clichés and stereotypes that sink the entire thing deeper than the main character on a quest for the Titanic!
   
   Rossanna Arquette plays the dopey American blonde in love with the ultimate "cold fish", a dreamy French American effete whose only desire in life is to become a dolphin and swim away for all eternity (eventually he does, thank God, but you'll have to spend a great deal of yours to get to that particular scene). Jean Reno plays the (stereo)typical Italian bachelor (obnoxious mother in black included) in a "boastful performance" most humble moviegoers would describe as plain overacting. Even Dunne is given lousy lines the few seconds he's in -something like "You deliberately lied to me, embezzled the company's money, and should go to jail this very instant if I'm not to lose my own job as well. But never mind all that; tell me: is this love for real?".
   
   No kidding: there's an old uncle who dives in a bathtub, a bipolar dolphin who feels out-of-water, and an aquarium where you can break in and walk away with whatever you please without a care in the world. There's daddy dying on cue, mamma frowning on spaghetti -although she cooks lots of it in hotel bedrooms- and Honey getting pregnant and abandoned (tears and all) in a -literally- fishy finale. And there's this guy who grew in an impoverished idyllic Greek vilage, doesn't have a job, doesn't own a suit, and yet stays at the Nice Carlton and lives in a posh apartment. But mostly there's me, the bemused-confused audience, wondering why this pretentious deadweight is hailed as a cult film, when it should be shelved in the far off corners of the Hallmark Channel where it belongs!
   
   P.S.: As any licensed diver can tell you, these guys are fakes! The first and foremost rule in diving is SAFETY. That is, if someone tells you something is not safe, or seems not safe, or may not be safe, or lurks in the vicinity of perhaps not safe, YOU DON'T DO IT, PERIOD! To show otherwise is like showing cops goofing around with a loaded weapon. Whatever one may think about them, professionals is not likely to be on the list. And one is to believe these hotshot divers are pros, let alone World Champions, when hey routinely ignore every warning they're given? Please..!



3. I saw this movie years ago and i just re-discovered it on netflix. I don't remember how the American version was, but don't bother, there is no need to see that version when you have such a beautiful version in the director's cut. The movie is long (almost three hours), but it's definitely worth it. The beautiful water sequences with the dolphins. Jean Reno is so funny as Endo and i just think Jean-Marc Barr is beautiful and so fascinating as Jacques. I am not a big Rosanna Arquette fan, but i definitely liked her in this movie. I loved Eric Serra's music, i think it just brought it all together. It's just a shame that there aren't enough people who really like this movie. And at the end, right before it fades to black. I think the dolphin is pulling Jacques back up to the surface. At least, that's what i hope, the movie made me cry, it was definitely better than i remembered.



4. There are three versions of this movie out & I've seen them all. Each one left me with a different take on the show. Not bad considering it's basically the same story & with the same stars. The Director's cut 168 min's, the French release 132 min's & the American release 118 min's.
   
   Its a show done around the world free diving championships (meaning no air tanks but your lungs). I thought it would bore me but discovered that Jean Marc-Barr, Jean Reno & Rosanna Arquette (I like her) put together a fun, quirky & believeable show. Marc-Barr plays Jacques Mayol who starts the show as a little French kid that likes to dive on the same island as Enzo played by Reno. Mayol's father is a sponge diver that dies picking sponges. It has an impact on young Jacques. Fast forward 15 - 20 years & Enzo is the worlds best free diver. He is not content however as his old competitor Jacques is not in sight.
   
   We find Jacques diving for the sake of science in the Andes mountains. The scientific expedition has had an accident that requires the insurance company to send a rep down to investigate. Thats Arquettes entrance as Johana Baker a quirky fun lady. She is immediately smitten with Jacques & that begins the rest of the show that revolves around the three of them & the dolphins Jacques admires. Jacques gets involved in Free diving because Enzo has him located & big Enzo who must be first in all things believes he will successfully romance Johana. The competition for Johana & the free diving world record begins. It plays much better than it reads with interesting looks at the world of diving as a sport, as a living, as fun & as science. The world of human relationships isn't left out. The love story is from as slightly unusual aspect due to Mayol's character.
   
   The american ending differs from the others but that didn't upset me. It wasn't that big a thing & I'm not big on the integrity of a storyline as I believe the rash of director cuts are more tied to ego than integrity. Their validity or necessity surely isn't much.
   
   The Directors cut I thought a travesty of time waste so many of its scenes really served no purpose. The French version was a much better length but I thought it suffered from having the same score as the Director's cut. Done by Eric Serra (the original composer) I felt the music was unrelated to the subject of the movie. The American version was cut a little short but had a new score done by Bill Conti. That score was perfectly suited to the water theme & as the music is a large part of your experience I prefer it by alot. The American ending is over dramatic but I'll put up with that for the change in music. I really like this show & when it comes to mind I always hear the American score not the original. Sometimes change is good as they say. I feel you should watch both the French & the American version. The Director's is just not good film.
   
   I give the Director' 2 1/2 Stars. The French 4 Stars. The American 5 Stars.
   I'm rating all three versions together as 4 Stars. Take a look!



5. Thank you for the timely delivery, the VHS version, and simply having one available. I have been wanting to own a copy of "The Big Blue" in its original format and story for sometime now, and there you were. It is in excellent condition and all that you said it would be. I will recommend your business to others.

5 comments about The Deep [Blu-ray].

1. I know they now have the Blu Ray version that has the documentary in it, perhaps the one I saw back when it came out on TV to promote the film but this DVD version does not. It has both pan and scan and widescreen but this version is missing two bits of film from the VHS version that I remember. When Treece finds his buddy Kevin he puts his coat over the body and then hugs him which is touching. Later in the underwater climax Nolte uses the suction device's exaust to stun the big black henchman dude to escape but the full scene is missing just like the hugging scene.
   This movie needs a full blown remaster to fix everything I would guess but the sales are not there to warrant the money it would take I would imagine.
   I also read that there is an extended version that was shown on TV years ago. That should be done as well and I would buy it for sure because I love this movie.
   I bought the VHS and two DVD's so far plus I saw the film in the theatre.



2. "The Deep" was one of the reasons I started diving back in the 80's. Since then I have bought this movie in VHS, DVD and now Blu-Ray. The Dlu-Ray edition is worth the price, with an amazing image quality and nice extras. A must for anyone who loves diving, adventure or Jaqueline Bisset...



3. It is a good product but the disc needed some stamping or label on it but the Amazon service was top rate.Many THanks.



4. LET ME TELL YOU THE ONLY REASON I BOUGHT THIS DVD IS BECAUSE IM A HUGE FAN OF DONNA SUMMER. AND THE THEME FROM THE DEEP IS PERFORMED BY DONNA. A DANCE AND A SLOW VERSION. THIS MOVIE IS MOST WATCHABLE.



5. i really like Peter Benchley . having read both "Beast" and "the Island" over the last couple years it was very disheartening when this film came out on DVD . what with the gamble as to weather you'd get a copy with the "black bars distract me" full frame and widescreen or the "black bars distract me" only release . it's the only Blu-Ray i own . i had to have it in the proper aspect ratio . i love everyone involved in this little thriller . the author , director and obviously the cinamatographer . good story . great visuals . i'm not a videophile so i can't tell you if this is an "awesome" print . i'm sure happy with it though . to each their own .

5 comments about Ffolkes.

1. Leave your brains at the door, and bring out the popcorn to have a chuckle at this dated but still fun thriller. Well, let's face it - it's a comedy thriller. Thriller ingredients are all there - an oil platform has been booby trapped and ransom demanded by a sinister terrorist (back when terrorists were just out to get money and there was no need to explain any political agenda..). The government can't risk a naval assault, Admiral James Mason explains.. and so the eccentric Scottish Laird and his private band of ex service men who do odd jobs for Lloyds are brought in to save the day. The thrills are so-so, the production obviously limited in budget to just a few sets, the bridge of the boat and the main office of the platform mostly. The photography is uninteresting and even verging on overexposed.. but what makes this so much fun is Moore, clearly having a ball deconstructing his Bond persona playing the oddball, women hating, cat-loving, whisky guzzling Ffolkes. Perkins is straight forwardly convincing as the hijacker, James Mason says his lines like he is supposed to, and David Hedison takes a break from playing Felix in the Bond movies to fill in here as the Manager of the platform.
   Ok, it's nothing special.. there's a distinct lack in this release of any extras or something luxurious such as picture remastering or sound upgrade from the original stereo soundtrack. Basically it shouldn't keep you from anything better you have to do - but it earns its 3 stars in entertainment factor in the joy of seeing Moore having so much fun.



2. Roger Moore proved in this movie he would be an excellent James Bond in later years. This is one of the finest hostage movies ever made. Bad guys, led by Tony Perkins, excellent in the role, takes hostage an oil platform service boat in the North Sea, and puts explosives on British oil platforms worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and Moore's team is brought in to solve the crisis. James Mason is the stiff upper lip Admiral who accompanies Ffolkes (Moore) to the platform. Many good supporting actors, Michael Parks and others. An old film that could have been made yesterday.



3. When I was a teenager I used to go to the movies religiously at least once a week. I anxiously awaited Siskel and Ebert's "Sneak Previews" on PBS for their reviews of current movies on release. I remember "ffolkes" coming out the Spring of 1980 the same weekend as Bill Murray's "Where the Buffalo Roam". The studio did a lousy job marketing this flick. On the poster art it showed Roger Moore holding a cat surrounded by some luscious beauties. If "ffolkes" lasted at the bijous beyond a week I'd be surprised. I didn't see it at the time. A couple years later a film was shown in the summer on ABC's "Sunday Night Movie" called "North Sea Attack" or some such nonsense. I recognized at once that this was "ffolkes". Viewing it I was instantly riveted. To me Roger Moore was somewhat lacking as James Bond, either because he was a shadow of Sean Connery or the vehicles were inherently weak. I thought Moore's best work was here and in "The Wild Geese". "ffolkes" allows Moore to portray a character not only of action but interesting quirks. The plot concerning the hijacking of a North Sea oil rig is exciting. I would characterize "ffolkes" more as a suspense film because it's more of a cat-and-mouse game than an action film per-se. It also helps that Anthony Hopkins is a compelling baddie even if you don't believe for a moment that he is a worthy adversary to Rufus Excalibur ffolkes, then, who is. I think the highest recommendation you can give a film is that some thirty years on it remains in your subconscience and loses none of it's appeal.



4. there's a lot of favorable stuff being written about this little nugget . a lot of it is true . the downside is being downplayed though . the first thing that strikes one (anyone) when getting under way with this fun little film is the soundtrack . it's like A-Team bad and inappopriate and does mar the proceedings pretty badly throughout . yes , it is nice to see Roger Moore play aginst type (and quite well at that) . less fun is seeing the often superb Anthony Perkins tinker with the largely crumby and non-threatening roll he has to regurgitate . his group of terror thugs are about as frightening and realistic as a plastic fern . oddly , much of the film is rather well written and performed . i say oddly because the other 2/5ths is so bad (most of what occurs on the ship) . this is a very "light" PG film that often seems like a mediocre TV picture . the miniature work is admittedly really cool . the premise is unusual with a decent stab being taken at filmaking . often though , the spoken words , acting and execution that pepper the proceedings are cringe inducing and down right embarassing . little to nothing for Mr. Mason and Mr. Hedison to do . got for 3 dollars at the Lots . i keep it because like you i prefer old school over CGI and often hyperactive post 1980 editing and filmaking . it's easy to laud this one too much for these reasons and more . as always , only as good or bad/good as its screenplay . is it your cup of tea ? rental and see .



5. 
   
   In ffolkes, Roger Moore plays a James Bond-type of role. He is the head of a specialized, anti-terror type group that is contracted by the British government to rescue a massive oil rig platform that is being held for a hefty, king's ransom. The head of the crew holding the platform for ransom, played by Anthony Perkins, is probably miscast. I still just see him as Tony Perkins from PSYCHO.
   
   A mild-adventure film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, who did a superb job with Moore, Richard Burton and Richard Harris in THE WILD GEESE(A DEFINITE must-see and must-have for any video collection), ffolkes is a race against the clock for his crack underwater demolitions crew to find the explosives and then conduct their assault on the oil derrick before it gets blown to pieces. Moore's character as ffolkes does not like women or rewards or medals, but has a big fondness for cats.

5 comments about Never Say Never Again.

1. I should have known it, but bought it in a hurry for a gift.
   It should be made clear.



2. Great movie. I didn't know the history and that this was an "unofficial" Bond movie. The extras did a good job of explaining it and the movie is great.



3. Connery at his charming best! Not to mention it has the best Bond women and best villains and the best Bond woman villain! Far better than Thunderball. Some people call this an unofficial Bond but this is untrue, they had the rights to make this Bond story, its just not made by the people who made most of them.



4. This is yet another one of Sean Connery's greatest movie's thank you very much for getting this to me on time!!



5. Very satisfied and pleased. I recommend doing business with this seller. Very fast shipping and excellent communication. Thank you very much. A+++++++ Rating.

5 comments about Leviathan.

1. 'Leviathan' is one of those creature flicks I could watch over and over! This movie was GOLD for me when I was little haha. It still is gold to me and has a special place in my heart simply because its one of the very first creature flicks that truly captured my imagination as a kid. I'd get in trouble in school for wanting to always draw this creature during class lol! I will always LOVE Stan Winston's artwork/designs on many great creatures seen in dozens of flicks. May he rest in piece now; wish I had a chance to meet this fine artist. What's not to love about 'Leviathan'??? It has people mutating into each other and becoming one large, mean, nasty sea creature!!! Truly one of my favorites!



2. Being a mixture of Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing, you would think that this would be a fairly dark and suspenseful sci-fi thriller. But it's not. What you get is a bland, tedious adventure that offers no thrills even when it tries. A group of undersea miners discover a Russian underwater ship named Leviathan. During the investigation, it looks to have been abandoned since no one is on it. The miners go through tapes and medical logs, and something leads them to believe that a cataclysmic event has occurred here. Eventually, the event repeats itself, as one of the crew members starts to feel sick and things start to get much worse. This is when the movie should start to give us chills, but it fails. The scenes in which everybody on board is in danger should give us thrills, but it fails. The entire movie should have been a classic sci-fi thriller, but it failed to become one. Why? Because it's a boring 100-minute movie that lacks both suspense and intrigue. It's one of the most tedious movies I have ever seen, and I hated it.
   
   Grade: D-



3. On a ridiculous note, I always like to imagine this story takes place in the same world as Robocop. I like to think Peter Weller's bosses at OCP needed to get him out of town for a while after he wasted a Senior Exec and did all that damage in that movie, so they took back the nifty robot suit and told him to go mine ore under the ocean until all the media attention blows over.
   
   Murphy! WHAT DID YOU DO THIS TIME? *WAH, WAH, WAH, WAAAHHHHH* That's our Robocop. Hijinks most definitely ensue.
   
   But seriously, any movie that features a woman running gets an extra star. There is an inherent beauty and grace to women when they run especially when its a really cute gal running while vague shadowy stuff happens and there's the threat of attack by evil mutant fish people. And, you're not buying this at all, are you?
   
   Well, lets try this, this movie has the potential for at least one or possibly even two different drinking games, a definite justification for at least one star and Richard Crenna, boy, didn't he have it coming or what? Especially after First Blood. And..
   
   I think you get it. It's cheese. But like most good cheese it can be occasionally served up with a little wine and fruit on an attractive ceramic plate from Ikea. Think about it, won't you?



4. lovely prosthetic work on a moderately budgeted sci-fi/monster "mashup" . evidently a lot of money was spent on a good cast of character actors , the picture itself is a blatant rip off of many stronger pictures . but taken on its own fairly modest terms , it sure is a lot of fun to look at and listen to . you'll read the pro's and con's from others . i more or less just wanted to throw my hat into the ring and vote in favor of another pre C.G.WHY ? picture that came out when i was 26 yrs old in 89' . i finally bought this baby for its modest worth and delighted in (at least) my third viewing . i won't try to defend it on most levels . suffice it to say i enjoy everything i rattled off as well as the model work , story , music and direction . if you're old school too , check it out . as Mr. Noblitt from "Strangers With Candy" might say....."It's better than good Jerri.....it's gooder" .



5. LEVIATHAN is a hybrid of ALIEN, THE THING, and THE ABYSS, w/ a little nod to JAWS at the end. Unfortunately, the story feels sort of like a so-so parody of these superior films. Peter Weller (OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, ROBOCOP) plays a deep-sea geologist (!!) and head of a screwball team of oceanic miners. The monster (by Stan Winston no less) is ok, but seems like many other cheeeze-puppets. Besides, we only get to see scant flashes of it, until the weak finale. I spent most of the movie waiting for the real terror to begin. Daniel Stern (CHUD) plays one of the most annoying characters I've ever seen! Thankfully, he buys it early! Worth a watch on a dull night...

5 comments about Never Say Never Again (Collector's Edition).

1. I should have known it, but bought it in a hurry for a gift.
   It should be made clear.



2. Great movie. I didn't know the history and that this was an "unofficial" Bond movie. The extras did a good job of explaining it and the movie is great.



3. Connery at his charming best! Not to mention it has the best Bond women and best villains and the best Bond woman villain! Far better than Thunderball. Some people call this an unofficial Bond but this is untrue, they had the rights to make this Bond story, its just not made by the people who made most of them.



4. This is yet another one of Sean Connery's greatest movie's thank you very much for getting this to me on time!!



5. Very satisfied and pleased. I recommend doing business with this seller. Very fast shipping and excellent communication. Thank you very much. A+++++++ Rating.

5 comments about Along Came Polly (Widescreen Edition).

1. This bit of comedic fluff I've seen a few times in bits and pieces. Ben Stiller plays Rueben who is a risk assessment insurance guy, who just had a Jewish wedding with Lisa. But on their honeymoon she bangs the skindiver instructor, Claude. After some hippo jokes and bathroom humor, you learn of his crush with the Jennifer Aniston character, who is no not into him. He wants to change and forces himself to fit her mold, which I found distastful. Alec Baldwin was funny as the overacting boss.
   
   Then his wife Lisa wants to get back together and she looks like she's sincere in wanting forgiveness, but he can't and dumps her anyway, even though Polly is nowhere in his league. Personally I would have went back to Lisa. As one character says, it's not about what's happening in life, it's just enjoying the ride.
   
   Oddball, a few laughs, but really don't waste your time.
   
   Stiller Stinkers & Praisers include:
   
   Tropic Thunder (Unrated Director's Cut)
   Meet the Parents
   Night at the Museum (Widescreen Edition)



2. This dvd came in a movie jacket instead of in the actual case which just leads me to believe that it was stolen. It was a cheap movie, but I expected to get the case it came in. Very cheap of the seller to ship a dvd without any protection from the case. I was not impressed.



3. This is one of the best comedy's ever, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Alec Baldwin are so funny in this. Plus I think that Ben Stiller's character is great he is just trying to make the best of a crummy situation and does that and luckily has wonderful people in his life that care about him. My boyfriend and I love this movie because it's hilarious and at the end he loves the part when Ben Stiller meets up with the scuba instructor again and actually thanks him for everything because he did him a favor by helping to reveal his cheating wife's true nature and allowing him to go on with his life for the better.So not only a hilarious comedy but very heartwarming as well.



4. Hands down the worst romantic comedy I've ever seen . . . and I'm a Ben Stiller fan. Or was.
   
   They seemed to have shoehorned Aniston's character into the script. At no point in the movie did you ever get the feeling that Stiller and Aniston's characters loved each other or had much in common. The only reason they seemed to start a relationship was that the script instructed them to.



5. This movie has a special place in my heart possibly because I've done the work that Reuban (Ben Stiller) has done before! Great (somewhat romantic) comedy about two opposites. Great choice of actors as well!

5 comments about The Deep.

1. I know they now have the Blu Ray version that has the documentary in it, perhaps the one I saw back when it came out on TV to promote the film but this DVD version does not. It has both pan and scan and widescreen but this version is missing two bits of film from the VHS version that I remember. When Treece finds his buddy Kevin he puts his coat over the body and then hugs him which is touching. Later in the underwater climax Nolte uses the suction device's exaust to stun the big black henchman dude to escape but the full scene is missing just like the hugging scene.
   This movie needs a full blown remaster to fix everything I would guess but the sales are not there to warrant the money it would take I would imagine.
   I also read that there is an extended version that was shown on TV years ago. That should be done as well and I would buy it for sure because I love this movie.
   I bought the VHS and two DVD's so far plus I saw the film in the theatre.



2. "The Deep" was one of the reasons I started diving back in the 80's. Since then I have bought this movie in VHS, DVD and now Blu-Ray. The Dlu-Ray edition is worth the price, with an amazing image quality and nice extras. A must for anyone who loves diving, adventure or Jaqueline Bisset...



3. It is a good product but the disc needed some stamping or label on it but the Amazon service was top rate.Many THanks.



4. LET ME TELL YOU THE ONLY REASON I BOUGHT THIS DVD IS BECAUSE IM A HUGE FAN OF DONNA SUMMER. AND THE THEME FROM THE DEEP IS PERFORMED BY DONNA. A DANCE AND A SLOW VERSION. THIS MOVIE IS MOST WATCHABLE.



5. i really like Peter Benchley . having read both "Beast" and "the Island" over the last couple years it was very disheartening when this film came out on DVD . what with the gamble as to weather you'd get a copy with the "black bars distract me" full frame and widescreen or the "black bars distract me" only release . it's the only Blu-Ray i own . i had to have it in the proper aspect ratio . i love everyone involved in this little thriller . the author , director and obviously the cinamatographer . good story . great visuals . i'm not a videophile so i can't tell you if this is an "awesome" print . i'm sure happy with it though . to each their own .

5 comments about Thunderball.

1. As far as a follow up to a classic film like Goldfinger, Thunderball delivers on many levels. The world threatening scheme is bigger and more menacing than it had been. We really get the impression that the fate of the world is at risk. We are also sent to a vast tropical paradise in the Bahamas, complete with sunshine, snorkeling for exotic fish, and sipping a cocktail under a palm tree on a warm carribean night. I don't think any other Bond film ever gave us such a breezy vacation feel as Thunderball.
   
   Then there is the man himself, Bond, James Bond smoothly played by Sean Connery, bedding a hospital nurse here, an enemy agent there, taking off on a jet back, descending in the crystal blue waters from a helicopter, brawling a guy on a speeding motor boat. What doesn't he do in this movie? Sean Connery oozes so much confidence in this performance, you begin to feel like he doesn't even have to try.
   
   There is plenty of high speed action to behold, such as the impressive underwater battle scenes (which are enjoyable and suspensful to watch if you ask me) Largo is also a pretty despisable main villain. Lastly there are sharks, albeit not with lasers, but there in there and that's still pretty cool...
   
   So it sounds like I think this is film is pretty good, right? Well, yes and no. My reasons above may be everything some fans are looking for--action, chicks, martinis, cars, and great locations. For me, this is not enough--and I am a huge fan of this series. While the plot starts out interesting in the beginning, it just devolves into the lazy, let's turn this into one big chase movive. In this case, it's Bond tracking down Largo and attempting to board his Disco Volente ship. While this works great for a video game it starts to get boring in an over 2 hour long film.
   
   My other big complaint is the casting of the lead Bond girl. First of all, Claudine Auger, while French and hot, has absolutely no acting ability and dimension to her character whatsoever. I don't care about her character and I don't know much about who she is either. It seemed like the producers were trying to put in another Honey Ryder (Dr. NO), what with the collecting sea creatures and all...But Honey Ryder, while played pretty dumb-faced by that actress, at least had some back story and reason for being where she was. On top of this, Bond has zero chemistry with this character, so any romance in this is completely unconvincing. My other problem with this, is that the other "Bond Girl" Fiona Volpe, in this movie is MUCH more interesting and much sassier. Why is she not the main Bond girl and worse, *Spoiler alert* why is she killed off so early in this movie? Her relationship with Bond as being an agent on the other side, made their romance all the more intriguing.
   
   While this movie has all the great Bond ingredients, and probably some of the best in the series--Sean Connery as Bond in the Bahamas (really, what more do you need), it falls short on two fundamental areas that make a film good: interesting plot AND and an interesting supporting lead character. You need a plot that keeps you following the movie AND you need an interesting supporting lead to interact with the protagonist to make the plot interesting! I don't care how many chase scenes, sex scenes, drink scenes, kill scenes, or shark scenes you have, if the two foundational indredients are not there, then well...you don't have a cake...or a movie.
   
   I don't think Thunderball is quite that bad; I find it quite enjoyable in fact. It just is missing some important elements that would make this a classic 007 film. For that, yes this film is over-rated, but certainly one worth checking out.



2. You get more bang for your buck with this movie. I got a single DVD with the same cover picture from a $5 bin at Walmart. I wasn't sure I was going to like it, since I have been 99% disappointed with my compulsive DVD buys from Walmart bins. However, I am thrilled with this purchase to say the least. The DVD is really really really clear, and MGM is taking strides in James Bond DVD excellence (GREAT JOB MGM!), the story is exciting to say the least--and very action-packed and fun. You get so much more than you expected--60's sophistication (the 60's was in many ways more glamorous and sophisticated than today), fabulous 60's cars including European models, gorgeous girls in 60's make-up & fashion, sophisticated European ways.
   
   In this movie, Bond travels from Europe to Nassau on an exciting adventure. The movie is so much more than just a FIRST-RATE James Bond movie which it is! You should see this film several times to really soak it all in--the cars, the beautiful women, a young Sean Connery as James Bond, the subtle humor, suspense, classy places, classy 60's cars, classy 60's make-up, the best of the 60's fashion, the best technology of the times (you will be astonished!), AND NO CEL PHONES-WHEEEEEEE!--The one-&-only classic ring of a "real" telephone! Ahhh what a superb movie!
   
   I will certainly put a collection of James Bond movies on my wish list. Awesome film!



3. Does anyone know when they plan on releasing a nice box set on Blue ray for the entire Bond Collection. My favorite (Thunderball included) is "You only live twice". MGM/Fox was releasing the Bond films with the 3-pack series but stopped before releasing the last few films.
   I am a huge Bond fan and have been waiting several years to buy the whole collection. I assumed the studio would release the last of the 3-pack series, then offer a really nice box set like they usually do. But it's been a long time since the last release of the 3-packs and the series is still missing several of the films.
   Any info would be greatly appreciated.



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   This is a look back for us from a night in Times Square in 1965. I was to meet a friend from out of town and agreed to meet at a theater near Times Square. My friend was delayed and I stood outside the theater for an hour in December. Didn't see the movie that night but that experience has always stayed in my mind.



5. Very satisfied and pleased. I recommend doing business with this seller. Very fast shipping and excellent communication. Thank you very much. A+++++++ Rating.